US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on June 17 for "Semiconductor device and operation method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,875, issued on June 17, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and operation method thereof" was invented by Kei Takahashi (Isehara, Japan) and Takayuki Ikeda (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a switch, a capacitor, a chopping circuit, and an amplifier. The amplifier includes a non-inverting input terminal, an inverting input terminal, an inverting output terminal, and a non-inverting output terminal. The semiconductor device, with use of the switch and the capacitor, has a function of sampling and holding a first potential and a seco...